Except the installer requires one specific repo mirror to be up, which can't be customized, which has been down for weeks and the dev isn't very interested in providing any fix or workaround so a lot of people literally can't install it.

It's a bad suggestion, it's a beta product not fit for end user consumption yet.

Timeshift is smart enough, they deal with that.

Yeah if you're going for a game that's mostly Pokemon-based, this ain't it.

It's just ARK but pokemon instead of dinosaurs, and you don't lose them when they're killed, and it has some of that botw/genshin exploration/collectability sprinkled in. It's fun, but it's a survival first, mons are one of the gimmicks.

That would require the VPN service to keep track of users' usage and be able to match traffic to user, which most (or most of the big ones at least) very specifically, very on purpose, explicitly say they don't do, which would be really bad for them if it turned out to be false.

Yeah I sure hope they've learned from NMS and specifically underpromise and overdeliver, but most nervousness can be explained by him just being an introverted dork. I can relate.

To "link" other devices you have to scan a qr from your phone, so it's certainly possible that during that process the devices connect and share the key, and the servers don't have it.

Or the servers could have it. Idk, it's closed source, that's the problem at hand.

Steam's price settings page already has a very convenient Recommended Prices button that sets your game's price to what Valve estimates would be okay for that region. For most devs, that's perfectly adequate. Valve already did the homework so devs don't have to.

Publishers that would want to charge more would likely just set the USA price anyway and forgo regional pricing.

And if you want to charge less than the recommended price, while appreciated, why?

Yeah but in that case it isn't nuking the boot files required to boot Windows, it's just clearing the boot entry list and reenabling os-prober and updating grub is enough to fix it. It's like a 1 minute process tops.

Windows is capable of permanently nuking your Linux boot partition, overwriting it entirely and you'd have to boot into a live iso and take several more steps to fix it unless you keep a backup of your boot partition.

Some things just aren't good enough yet.

Like VR compatibility and performance, particularly with nvidia and quest headsets.

Otherwise yeah, 99% of my games would run perfectly fine.

What you find acceptable is entirely based on your personal preference, how much you've already been exposed to higher specs, and how privileged you are in hardware, so some people are memeing and others are serious based on these. If console and mid-range pc gaming is all you know, the Steam Deck provides similar performance, and it's a full on pc (with all the customization potential and non-gaming software availability you'd expect from a pc) in a handheld form factor, and a fairly console-like stock OS, if that's appealing to you. But if you want 120-240 fps on latest AAA games, no, you won't find the Steam Deck's performance acceptable, but then also you wouldn't be the target audience.

NVME ssd in a carry usb adapter. It's as reliable as a regular ssd, but it's way more portable and durable than commercial external hdds. A little bigger than usb flash drives but worth the tradeoff. Wouldn't use it as the only backup place for a password dB file but for carrying around its pretty good.

Which app do you use that has instance filters? I'm using Liftoff and I didn't find an option for that and I'd really like to filter some shit instances